(21 Sep 2025)
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Manila, Philippines – 21 September 2025
1. Various of hundreds of participants during protest
2. Protester holding sign reading: “Stop flooding us with corruption”
3. Protesters marching while holding placards reading (Tagalog): "Hold accountable" and banners reading (Tagalog): "Women fight corruption, fight for the national democracy" and "The future of children will be ruined. Leave the corruption"
4. Sign reading (Tagalog): “Marcos and Duterte (Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sarah Duterte) are both corrupt”
5. Protesters holding signs and cardboard luxury car, with one protester holding sign reading (English/Tagalog): "Luxury cars of the Discaya are equivalent to 175 classrooms" and another reading (Tagalog): "Change the system! Bureaucracy, capitalism, Overthrow!"
6. Child wearing alligator mask next to car, holding placard reading: “Child rights advocates stand against corruption!"
7. Protesters marching and holding signs reading (Tagalog): “Stop corruption, fight for education” and "End misogeny", "Hold Duterte accountable" and "Hold Duterte accountable!" and "Charge Marcos!"
8. Althea Trinidad, 24-year-old flood victim, surrounded by protesters holding up signs reading (Tagalog): "Charge Marcos! Hold Duterte accountable!" and "Sloppy flood control projects harm the people" and "Promote democracy" and "Enough with the corruption. Don’t want to serve?"
9. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Althea Trinidad, flood victim and student activist:
“I feel bad that we wallow in poverty, we lose our homes, our lives and our future, while they rake in a big fortune from our taxes that pay for their luxury cars, foreign trips and bigger corporate transactions.”
10. Wide of protesters
11. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Althea Trinidad, flood victim and student activist:
“We want to shift to a system where people will no longer be abused.”
12. Sign reading (Tagalog/English): “Lock up the thieves! Return the people’s money! End corruption now!" with an image of contractor Sara Discaya
13. Wide of protesters
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters led by Catholic church clergy and activists gathered in the Philippine capital Sunday to express outrage over a massive corruption scandal involving congressmen, officials and businessmen.
The politicians are alleged to have pocketed huge kickbacks from flood-control projects in a poverty-stricken Asian country often devastated by deadly storms.
Police forces and troops were put on alert to prevent any outbreak of violence like what happened in recent public protests in Nepal and Indonesia.
Thousands of police officers were deployed to secure two protest venues in the capital region, a historic park in Manila and a democracy monument along the main EDSA highway.
Organizers expected up to 30,000 protesters to gather for what they hoped to be the largest anti-corruption rally in the country in recent years.
The United States and Australian embassies asked their citizens to stay away from street protests as a safety precaution.
Joining the protest was Althea Trinidad from Bulacan, a flood-prone province north of Manila.
“I feel bad that we wallow in poverty and we lose our homes, our lives and our future while they rake in a big fortune from our taxes," the young student activist said.
Officials say Bulacan is where the most number of flood control projects are being investigated, either for being substandard or for having been reported as completed but not actually existing.
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